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3D printers have ‘fingerprints,’ a discovery that could help trace 3D-printed guns...
Univ. at Buffalo ^ | 10/16/18 | Cory Nealon

Posted on 10/20/2018 12:27:29 PM PDT by LibWhacker

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To: .44 Special

I found it interesting that they were able to arrest the insane leftist yesterday who was threatening to kill Senators. He was using burner cell phones.


21 posted on 10/20/2018 2:20:04 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Larry Lucido

work around would be just altering the device slightly every time you make something you don’t want traced.


22 posted on 10/20/2018 2:35:01 PM PDT by PCPOET7
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
All before any actual crime has been committed with a 3d gun. The un-governed mind.

Traceability of a gun does not prevent crime.

23 posted on 10/20/2018 3:01:42 PM PDT by Ranxerox
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To: Larry Lucido

Maybe instead of making a printed gun we need to consider making a cursive gun...


24 posted on 10/20/2018 3:06:10 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Larry Lucido

Options would include:
* own your own printer, never share it
* make your own printer, less traceability
* order stuff made from someone who doesn’t track customers and where files come from


25 posted on 10/20/2018 3:18:36 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Larry Lucido

“Hmmm. Don’t suppose there would be workarounds for that. Nah.”

I can think of a half dozen off the top of my head.

1. Change the room temperature.
2. Add and subtract rubber bands to gantries to pre-stress.
3. Add weights to nozzle.
4. Tilt tables.
5. Poke pin into nozzle to open up a hair.
6. Change base table damping by placing on hard surface, or rubber pad.
Etc.


26 posted on 10/20/2018 4:01:17 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Benedict Sessions.)
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To: antidisestablishment

How much of blast was that duckbill?


27 posted on 10/20/2018 4:03:16 PM PDT by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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To: Larry Lucido

I bet Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson and all the “Bad Guys” of the past were really concerned that there were traceable serial numbers on their guns.


28 posted on 10/20/2018 4:21:27 PM PDT by Delta 21 (.....been here this long you actually expect me to read the article....)
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To: Larry Lucido

That was my first thought too. Thirty minutes after they put these in or people are aware of it; it will be beat in some way.

The gun grabber worry too much and they actually think they will take billions of dollars of guns away from its US citizens before getting blown away themselves.

Without a strong 2A we’re toast anyway with nothing left to lose because we know our freedoms will be gone 10 minutes later by force of law and well armed UN soldiers or someone like that.

Without our freedoms we are nothing. Just subject slaves.


29 posted on 10/20/2018 5:26:03 PM PDT by Boomer (Better Dead Than Dem)
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To: LibWhacker

Throw the printer into 200 feet of water, or burn it in a barrel, after printing a firearm or lower (or 10) to prevent such a database from working, EVER.


30 posted on 10/20/2018 5:46:47 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: LibWhacker

ALL printers have a signature. Built right in. Send a threatening letter and the investigators can see if the doc was printed on a specific printer.


31 posted on 10/20/2018 5:51:05 PM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!.)
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To: LibWhacker

Not unless someone has a registry and sample from every printer head ever made.

L


32 posted on 10/20/2018 5:58:47 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: LibWhacker

Heck, like DNA and fingerprints, if there’s not a sample in the “system”, they still can’t identify the printer ...


33 posted on 10/20/2018 6:07:40 PM PDT by BlueLancer (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. (G.K. Chesterton))
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To: LibWhacker

I like this and hope it is true. Many people’s objections to this technological genius would no longer have the force they currently have.


34 posted on 10/20/2018 6:21:07 PM PDT by AFPhys ((Liberalism is what Smart looks like to Stupid people - ® - Mia of KC. Rush - 1:50-8/21/15))
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

It was. I’d love to build some with my grandkids in a few years; however, it appears the company no longer makes them. Maybe I’ll look into starting up a new business. I’m pretty sure it would be as much, if not more, popular today.


35 posted on 10/20/2018 9:25:43 PM PDT by antidisestablishment ( Xenophobia is the only sane response to multiculturalismÂ’s irrational cultural exuberance)
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To: BlueLancer

Hence all 3D Printers will have to be entered into the national database in the near future.


36 posted on 10/20/2018 9:44:20 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: wally_bert
The duckbill has to be one of the worst designs ever, but it was fun to shoot. You just have to triple-check the firing line before shooting, because it's almost as dangerous as being at an Air Force range (I say that as retired USAF). It was always a good conversation starter.

The New Orlean's Ace and the derringer were more accurate:

The pepper box and twister were a lot of fun:

The Possible Shop has a page displaying many completed kits. Wish they were still regularly available. The new rifle kits are as expensive, or more expensive, than finished rifles.

We weren't interested in heirlooms and I'm not paying that kind of cash. My dad always said, "Guns are meant to be used, and I'll be damned if I get one that I can't shoot.'

37 posted on 10/20/2018 9:50:20 PM PDT by antidisestablishment ( Xenophobia is the only sane response to multiculturalismÂ’s irrational cultural exuberance)
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To: antidisestablishment
looks like Dixie Gun Works carries new kits. They are still inexpensive, though they all seem to have composite stocks. I would carve wooden ones myself.

I'll add them all to my Christmas list!

38 posted on 10/20/2018 10:20:45 PM PDT by antidisestablishment ( Xenophobia is the only sane response to multiculturalismÂ’s irrational cultural exuberance)
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